Thank goodness I'm not home. Is it mean for me to say that I'm currently sitting by a pool in Palm Springs, CA, sipping a fruity drink after spending a lovely day in the Living Desert and lunching outdoors in the gorgeous sunshine.

Ok....I shouldn't have said that! Crystal

Welll Aurora didn't get hit too hard. I hear they can still see the grass. Roads are A-Ok now, but I had to shovel twice.

Lots of shoveling today! Look out you people east of the Mississippi.

Bare ground here in Joliet. Only got some flakes / sleet and some rain. That's all we got here so if you all in the north and nw burbs want to brave the cold this weekend, take a drive down towards Joliet or Channahon/Minooka area where we got no snow.

Yeah, I just took the dog outside and there is about 4" out there now. I have a rugby game tomorrow. I hate playing in the snow.

I need to move to San Diego.

no snow here in will countly, but way tooo freakin cold to ride. AND that has me equally pissed off.

later.

You can have it.... I lived there for 18yrs off and on.... I still like Chicago better, even with the snow (or is it because of the snow )

It feels like Christmas morning to me.

I feel for you guys in Milwaukee. Madison got off lightly, with only about 6". I could've ridden yesterday, but the doom-n-gloom weather forecasters were predicting the heaviest snow to happen in the early afternoon, and I would not have been able to get home. Turns out it wasn't so bad. So this morning I headed out on the winter beater with studded tires. There was a layer of ice pretty much everywhere, but it was easy riding as the plows had cleared everything. It felt like the first snow of winter.

I have lived in Ohio most of my life. I lived in Orange County for a bit. Though I didn't care for the natives, the weather was awesome. I have a buddy from Ohio who now lives in San Diego and he keeps telling me how much better San Diego is than Orange County.

If I could find a job in San Diego, I'd move as soon as possible. That's San Diego County, not necessarily the city.

Update, 8" or so of snow and the rugby game starts in 1.5 hours. It's going to suck.

What position do you play?

Personally, I'm in heaven.

I live right on the hyphen between the 12 and 15 in this graphic.

My House got NAILED !! Although my back is complaining after a morning of shoveling ... after lunch ... I'm going skiing !!

Well, I am old and basically retired now, but I try to play a couple of games a year and attend each game. I have played hooker 99% of the time.

well sure glad I got in that ride friday, because as expected, 5-6 in. fell overnight. But me the misses and our son (daughter did want to go) went for 41/2 hours of down hill. Some of the best skiing of the year and it's March 22nd (easter weekend) who woulda thunk it possible. Now the sun is out and it's melting fast, ride before night fall?? Happy easter (or whatever you may celebrate) to all of you!! DAN

BTW, John, I love the pic's, especially the snow covered bike (now that't a white bike, eh!). How was the skiing for you??

Sorry guys, it's all my fault. Not only did I dare to buy a new bike in March, I also washed the car!

and here I thought I was the only hooker in BF...who's your pimp?

The snow gods must like me.... I ran all the gas out of the snowblower last weekend, thinking there wouldnt be any use for it... and gave the pre-mix to my neighbor for his weed wacker! Woke up to less than 1/2 inch and its gone now!



Billy

I'm retired, I don't have a pimp.

I see pupsocket is accepting the blame for all this misery, atleast now we know where to truck the snow that we have all shoveled!!

Yeah, all the snow on that bike is gone already ... strong sun this time of year.

The skiing was 'okay' ... pretty soft, but lots of fun and a great workout. I did find groomed trails out at Lapham Peak State Park. My closest park was unreachable ... several cars already stuck in the parking lot including the snow plow that was supposed to clear it! If it re-freezes a few nights, that snow will firm up and we'll be rock'n again. I'll ski it down to mud ... plenty of time to ride this year yet.

I'm not that old but I am also retired. The sport was the most brutal...but the most fun too. I was a scrumhalf and played throughout the wing.

I retired last August. I decided I was too old to continue to play at a level I was happy with. The Bratfest is a 10's tournament that I enjoyed, so I decided early in the Spring that I would play in that tournament and then retire. But, this Spring, my team will be playing my old team. I will go on that trip and I will play in the B game. There is also the "old boys" game for my old team that I might play in, I won't play in the old boys game for my university though.

My avatar is the logo for my old team's old boys. It's hard to tell, but it is a crow holding a beer in one hand and a ball in the other.

Ah, wing. I have played that a couple of times. Boooorrrrring. I'd much rather be in the pack, scrumming down, rucking and mauling. Having fun and *****ing at backs for knocking on the ball after we fought hard to get that ball.

Back on Topic: The snow was deep. I was ok, but my right foot got wet and was very painful. I think this was because I rode my bike to the game and my cycling shoe is not very waterproof.

A friend of mine always said, "Spring in Michigan lasts only 2 days and it doesn't happen until late May." It's true that we usually go straight from snow storms to tornados, with no gentle rains in between.